Writer Quotes · Page 306

“Perhaps, at heart, I am a storyteller; and the universe is my canvas.”

— Max L. Phillips

Doing readings is so gratifying that it makes any physical intensity worth it for me.

— Tyler Henry

“Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.”

— Jaako J. Wallenius

“There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.”

— David Diringer

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

— Adam Gopnik

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them.…

— Susan Orlean

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like…

— Tim Cahill

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

— Blake Bailey

On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court…

— Dahlia Lithwick

“You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels.”

— Ken Follett

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.

— Peter Hook

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and…

— Breckin Meyer

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down…

— Sharon Olds

If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar.…

— Jonathan Evison

Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story,…

— Carol Windley

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a…

— Kelly Rowland

What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the…

— Rebecca Mead

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing…

— Gunter Grass

I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays…

— Andrew Davies

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly…

— Ron Franscell

I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

— Christine and the Queens

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

— Luther Standing Bear

Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

— Jim Gaffigan

“A NICE THOUGHT One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”

— Markus Zusak

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

— Michel de Montaigne

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

— Alice Walker

“I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.”

— Lorenzo de' Medici

I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!”

— Christie Silvers

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.”

— Shay Youngblood

“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”

— Roald Dahl

I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it.

— Omar Benson Miller

“The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend. ”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer